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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent

Cancer patients in England to be first in Europe to be offered immunotherapy jab

A nurse wearing a pair of blue disposable gloves administers a vaccine into a person's forearm.
Injectable nivolumab, known as Opdivo, can be used as an alternative to administering the drug via an intravenous drip. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Up to 15,000 cancer patients a year could be treated with a quick injection, NHS England has announced.

It is the first health service in Europe to offer patients the injectable form of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab.

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